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You are confidentaly wrong here, my friend.
For one it realy is something that depends on the global and local region. There are multiple studies that point to a lack of evidence towards a clear answer. I'm not invested enoth to hunt down to many examples, so I'll just quote this 2016 Australien study:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305655680_Can_recreational_hunting_control_pests_on_public_lands
Even clearly pro hunting websites have liste of pros and cons to hunting as pest control, like this one
https://huntingandnature.com/index.php/2023/09/04/hunting-as-a-form-of-pest-control-pros-and-cons/
So no. It is not a clear cut matter, nor is it proven beyond any doubt.
Obviously it depends on region. It also depends on the species in question. No one thinks hunting rhinos is pest control.
That doesnt change the fact that in areas where we have removed or reduced predator populations, replacement hunting does show to help fill the gap and keep prey populations within healthy limits.
Look at the american deer conundrum as your prime example. When we stop hunting them in areas low in predation, they start destroying their already fragile ecosystems with overgrazing.
You are shifting the goalposts here. I argued against hunting beeing, and I quote:
You are the one who claimed that it's 1000 % proven that hunting is good pest control. Which is not true.
I didn't argue against it beeing efficient in some locations. I argued against it beeing "hard to find a more proven aspect of biology" that it is so.
So either show me some scientific backup or admit that you might have been a bit of there (it happens to the best of us, no big deal).
Please read the study I posted earlier, which shows how this is not universaly true, or, as I have said before, at the very least controversal.
Regarding this i would like to direct you to this study:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5729
To be fair, they are talking about hunting beeing the only method used here and also can't find prove, that other measures (like only protecting the plants) and no hunting are enoth. There just is not enoth clear data to support either side right now. Hence its controversal.
I'm in Germany, where hunting is highly regulated (not "recreational") with specific quotas which have to be followed (a fermales and b males from species 1, c females and d males from species 2 etc.). No more, no less, and roadkill has to be accounted for.
Thankfully, wolves are slowly coming back, so the quotas can be (and are in certain regions) lowered - but, unfortunately, now wolf-haters show up whining about their sheep because they are unwilling to invest in proper fences and guard dogs, even while both are subsidized by the state.
Youre claiming Im wrong because it is not a universal pest control.
I didnt say it was a universal pest control. Ive pretty explicitly corrected you on that already.
Your own sources cite examples where it has been successful, as I said it is. Like literally any other method of pest control, or anything else really, it obviously is context dependant on if its a good use. No one said it wasnt.
But do you act this way when someone says "yeah bleach is known as an effective cleaner" just because you cannot spray bleach on literally every mess in literally every scenario with every surface? I dont think you do.
Most of these controversial takes are if it alone is enough to maintain populations in specific regional examples. I would also wonder if bleach alone will be enough to clean my kitchen. This does not cause me to doubt the ability of bleach as a cleaner.
Well I for sure woudnt say: "Bleach is the most efficient cleaner, it's hard to find a better proven chemical fakt. "
;)
Well its a good thing I, nor the original comment, said anything was the most efficient anything.
Now, if you meant that you wouldnt say "bleach is a known effective cleaner, and its hard to find a better proven chemical fact," you would certainly look the fool, given thats a better comparison to what was said and is additionally correct.